Wild Lochaber Blogs
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Blogs (web logs) and blogspots provide a unique insight into Highland life and nature in Lochaber and The West Highlands.
We have put together a collection of Lochaber blogs to highlight the traditions, culture and wildlife in the various regions, including the West Coast Islands.
We show entries from the last 100 days, organised by region, topic and blog. The titles and text snippets give a taste of each entry with direct links to the main blog entry on the host website. We hope you will find time to explore the full articles and further information on the host blog sites.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any suggestions for blogs you would like to see here.
West Coast Mountain Guides
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Linton and I enjoyed a quiet day on the West Face of Aonach Mor today, where we climbed Western Rib. We started up the flying buttress on the left and gained the main rib after 4 pitches. Conditions on the route were mixed. Some useful patches of frozen ground but there's a glazing of ice...
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Winter has returned to the Highlands, sort of. We had fresh snow yesterday and today, but the freezing levels have still remained quite high, so Michael and I headed up to one of the highest crags in Glencoe; Church Door Buttress on Bidean nam Bian. We didn't encounter the fresh snow until...
Lochaber Chamber of Commerce
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Scottish Chambers of Commerce have announced their latest Quarterly Economics Indicator (QEI) survey. You can join hundreds of businesses each quarter that take part in anonymously sharing their experience of trading in Scotland and add to what is one of Scotland’s most influential business surveys...
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Hot off the heels of the re-launch of the new Kingshouse Hotel in Glencoe, Crieff Hydro Family of Hotels have announced the completion of the refurbishment programme at Isles of Glencoe Hotel in Ballachulish. Perched on its own little cove on Loch Leven, the hotel is all about location, location,...
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Nevis Partnership pioneer new tech and launch North Face Survey book (Friday, March 1, 2019 - 11:06)The Nevis Partnership pioneer new technology and launch North Face Survey book The Nevis Partnership have been busy during the Mountain Festival – they teamed up with Fintech startup and charity technology specialists GoodBox to collect donations using new contactless technology and launched the...
Highland Titles
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Around 50 million people around the globe claim to have Scottish ancestry, and no matter where they are, they will proudly admit to their Scottish roots and ties. This extreme sense of identity could very likely be connected to the clan concept. As described in Scottish Clans and Families, the word...
Scottish Islands Explorer
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Consider two film compilations featuring life on St Kilda. One was shot in 1908 and the other in 1928. Two years after the images of the latter had been acquired, the island was evacuated.Scottish Islands Explorer - frequently takes in this archipelagoDigital Edition: archive access accelerated
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Take scenic views of the Highlands & Islands through YouTube and consider the possibilities, presented on the BBC Website, of medical supplies being delivered by these devices to remote regions.Scottish Islands Explorer - deliveries by this method may comeDigital Edition: in a way the digital...
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There are similarities between these top two photographs - above of Luskentyre, Harris, and below of Bournemouth, Dorset. The Press and Journal has details of how they rated in a recent survey. However, it could be useful to contrast ….... the numbers of visitors each received. There's no prize for...
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South Ness House is impressive. It is close to the facilities of Lerwick and has uninterrupted views over the Sound of Bressay. Click on its name to see its many features and gallery of images - for it is on the market for offers over £525k. Press here to visit the blog giving details of the...
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Twageos Point, Lerwick, (photographed by Richard Webb for Geograph) looks like an attractive part of the town on the Sound of Bressay. In January 1745 it was the site of the sinking of the Drottningen af Sweridge - Queen of Sweden - the flagship of the Swedish East India Company. The vessel was...
Abacus Mountain Guides
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The snow made a very welcome return last night. Over the weekend it cooled down a bit and we got some fresh snow on the tops, but a lot of rain as well! Last night it snowed dopwn to 600m and there was quite a lot of it too. Will, Jonathan and I walked up the Allt a'Mhuilinn through a few...
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The recent warm, dry spell of weather has got us thinking about the Cuillin Ridge on Skye. A traverse of the Cuillin Ridge is a classic expedition that many people aspire to. What most people underestimate is just how big a challenge it is and how well it measures up to anything else in the...
Nevis Range Blog
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Nevis Range team up with Endura Over the past decade the growth in mountain biking internationally has been huge and it’s no surprise that this has been matched in Scotland! The sport has come a long way since the very first Mountain Bike World Cup graced the Nevis Range in the Scottish Highlands...
Craigard Croft
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These blog posts flit between North Northumberland and Kilchoan. Today it's a possible pine marten sighting in the West Wood between Harbottle and Sharperton. Elliot the Red Squirrel Group trapper and ecologist has a blurred image on one of his camera traps, it might just be a pine marten.Two...
Hunter Mountaineering Courses and Guiding
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Martin on Tower Ridge – at the top Myself, Mat and Huw on Crowberry Tower 2 climbers on Curved Ridge continuation Martin on Observatory Ridge Mat and Huw on Castle Ridge John climbing on Ben Nevis Tina on The Gutter Above Moonlight Gully, Ben Nevis Salamander Curved Ridge
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This last week (Monday 25th Feb to Friday 1st March) I was working for Jagged Globe on their Snow and Ice Climbing Course. Simon was working alongside me. We had Martin, Mat and Huw as keen climbers for the week. We were unable to offer our standard winter fayre of climbs but we did have a classic...
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1st March 2009. 10 Year Anniversary. A climbers’ rescue from Coire nan Lochan The 1st March 2009 was just another day in the (voluntary) office for all the GMRT volunteers, and the RAF Search and Rescue Force, involved in this particular Glencoe rescue, photographed here. This climber was...
wondering wanderers
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I’ve lived here (and by here I am meaning Rum, but actually the same applies for ‘on the planet’) long enough to know that March far from signifies the end of all that winter can bring in terms of weather and temperature challenges but nonetheless March 1st does mark the start of...
Plants of Skye, Raasay & The Small Isles
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Quite a long gap really, since I last wrote on this site. However, a review of plant recording in VC104 for July-December 2018 is on my BSBI page. With Jim McIntosh I have recently completed a country round-up for Scotland for the next BSBI News due out in April. I have started on plans for this...
